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The first substantial and focused critical study of Jesmyn Ward, now one of the most widely read, taught and studied contemporary authors Includes a co-authored introduction, twenty chapters and 'Afterword' Moves beyond existing Ward scholarship which focuses predominantly on two texts Gives space and attention to Ward's substantial body of non-fiction work This collection of essays provides a thorough and probing account of an author who is quickly becoming one of the most read, studied and taught contemporary writers, but whose work remains underrepresented in scholarship. It is broad and ambitious in scope, mirroring the richness of Ward's oeuvre, and it brings together a diverse and dynamic range of approaches that reflect the scholarly conversations in which Ward is embedded.

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This brilliant and timely collection covers a startling range of approaches to Jesmyn Ward's work - from ecocriticism to abolitionism to Afropessimism, and beyond. Harrison, Keeble and Torres-Quevedo's constellation of essays deftly guides us through and bears witness to Ward's powerful portraits of Black life and death, Black pasts and futures, and Black despair and hope.--Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of North Texas

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Sheri-Marie Harrison is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri, where she researches and teaches Contemporary literature and mass culture of the African Diaspora and directs the Individualized Degrees program. She is the author of Negotiating Sovereignty in Postcolonial Jamaican Literature (2014). Among her ongoing projects is an author study of Marlon James, a monograph on genre in Contemporary Black fiction. She is also a co-editor for the Routledge Companion to the Novel (forthcoming 2024).Arin Keeble is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. His most recent book is Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context (2019) and his essays can be found in Journal of American Studies, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Parallax, Post45 Contemporaries, Comparative American Studies, European Journal of American Culture, Canadian Review of American Studies, the Times Literary Supplement and in collections including The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction, The City in American Literature and Culture and The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature.Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo is a trade union organiser based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She received her PhD from Edinburgh University in 2021. Her dissertation focused on contemporary American women's autobiographies and posthumanism

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